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Date:      Wed, 01 Nov 1995 21:41:12 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), nate@rocky.sri.mt.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More nits 
Message-ID:  <199511020541.VAA02536@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 95 00:35:47 %2B0100." <199511012335.AAA00684@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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>As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> 
>> Still, I think that the present situation remains sub-optimal in the
>> extreme.  The bootup *should not fail just because there's no CD in
>> the friggin' drive!*
>
>It fails because this was Rod's idea.  He claims that everybody is in
>the same situation as AAC, and that a missing CD on bootup is a fatal
>condition.
>
>I continue to remove this gratuitous hack^H^H^H^Hfeature out of all
>/etc/rc's that are in my reach.

   Ummm, actually, I'm the one who made the changes to /etc/rc. I don't care
about the CDROM, but I do think it's extremely important that the system not
come up if some filesystems fail to mount.

-DG



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